And it all started with a small locomotive that carried wagons in a circle...
On May 31, 1879, visitors to the Berlin exhibition saw the world's first electric railway - a small locomotive drove around the cabins. He moved without noise, steam and smoke.
The world's first electric train, created by German engineer Werner von Siemens, developed a speed of 6.5 km / h. The locomotive was powered by a third rail direct current.
Siemens is known for having gone from a small workshop to a transnational concern. The company built the first international telegraph line in Europe, then built electric trains.
Two years later, a tramway was opened between the Lichterfelde station of the Anhalt railway and the cadet college in Berlin. The length of the track was 2.5 km, the maximum speed of the car was 30 km / h.
In 1883, an electrified railway was built in the Irish county of Antrim, and in the same year the first regular European tram route near Vienna was commissioned. In 1887, the tram appeared in Budapest. In 1892 began the construction of the Prague tram.
The world's first electric train, created by German engineer Werner von Siemens, developed a speed of 6.5 km / h. The locomotive was powered by a third rail direct current.
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Siemens is known for having gone from a small workshop to a transnational concern. The company built the first international telegraph line in Europe, then built electric trains.
Two years later, a tramway was opened between the Lichterfelde station of the Anhalt railway and the cadet college in Berlin. The length of the track was 2.5 km, the maximum speed of the car was 30 km / h.
In 1883, an electrified railway was built in the Irish county of Antrim, and in the same year the first regular European tram route near Vienna was commissioned. In 1887, the tram appeared in Budapest. In 1892 began the construction of the Prague tram.
